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The argument of whether or not video games are legitimately art ended last week when The Art of Video Games opened at The Smithsonian's American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.! Check out this interesting recap of all the exhibit has to offer, as well as some interesting thought you may have not realized about video games over the past 40 years!

News Blips for February 9, 2012. Double Fine breaks Kickstarter records, Skylanders makes some money, Alan Wake is bringing the goods to your PC, and more.

Double Fine takes a shot at having fans fund a brand new adventure game from the studio.

A million-dollar offer from Markus Perrson (Minecraft) to fund Psychonauts 2 inaugurated a whole new way to create video games...one that bypasses the traditional gatekeepers: publishers.

Ever wonder what's being dumped unto the shelves of video game stores every week? Wonder no more! Karli Winata will attempt to bring to light the many releases that come out each week. Won't you join him in his self torture? Check out what's coming out on the week of 2/6/2012.

Our panel of iconic game characters offers up a sensitive postmortem on the Stop Online Piracy Act.

The big show is here again, and the best minds in the industry tell us (almost) exactly what to expect!

Chris Melissinos, curator of the Smithsonian's The Art of Video Games, talks about the upcoming exhibition, its public voting process, and the evolution of gaming.

In this episode of the Mobcast, Britain invades! Freelancer Pete Davison and his well-known brother, GameSpot and Metacritic VP John Davison, join Bitmob's Dan Hsu and Brett Bates. The group discusses their early contenders for game of the year, genres and tropes that have fallen by the wayside, how younger people approach the medium, and more.

News Blips for September 27, 2010: A mock trial of the violent-video game supreme court case rules against games, Bungie "accidentally" hints at Halo: Reach DLC, Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer reunite at last, and more.

Deathspank - Ron Gilbert's latest release - comments on the very nature of the games industry. This definitely makes it an important game, but does everything click nicely or are Gilbert's comments themselves hypocritical?

A (fake) interview with DeathSpank and Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert.

Hear the evolution of PC audio via the theme from Monkey Island.

Tuesday night I'll be sitting down with Louis Castle, former head of Westwood Studios and EA LA and current CEO of GarageGames and InstantAction. Have any questions you'd like answered? Let me know!

A collection of 22 must-play PC and console games that probably slipped under your radar.

An entry in Bitmob's Best of 2009.